Free Black Communities and the Underground Railroad: The Geography of Resistance 9780252038044

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Автор: Cheryl Janifer LaRoche
Название: Free Black Communities and the Underground Railroad: The Geography of Resistance
ISBN: 9780252038044
Издательство: Wiley EDC
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История Америк

История нового времени до 20 века: с 1700 по 1900

Социальная история и история культуры

Рабство и отмена рабства

Исследования латиноамериканских этнических групп

ISBN-10: 0252038045
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 256
Вес: 0.52 кг.
Дата издания: 12.12.2013
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 5 black and white photographs, 6 maps, 2 charts
Размер: 231 x 155 x 23
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Ключевые слова: History of the Americas,Social & cultural history,Slavery & abolition of slavery,Hispanic & Latino studies, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century,SOCIAL SCIENCE / General,SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies,SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery
Подзаголовок: The geography of resistance
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This enlightening study employs the tools of archaeology to uncover a new historical perspective on the Underground Railroad. Unlike previous histories of the Underground Railroad, which have focused on frightened fugitive slaves and their benevolent abolitionist accomplices, Cheryl LaRoche focuses instead on free African American communities, the crucial help they provided to individuals fleeing slavery, and the terrain where those flights to freedom occurred.

This study foregrounds several small, rural hamlets on the treacherous southern edge of the free North in Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio. LaRoche demonstrates how landscape features such as waterways, iron forges, and caves played a key role in the conduct and effectiveness of the Underground Railroad. Rich in oral histories, maps, memoirs, and archaeological investigations, this examination of the "geography of resistance" tells the new powerful and inspiring story of African Americans ensuring their own liberation in the midst of oppression.

Free Black Communities and the Underground Railroad: The Geography of Resistance, Cheryl Janifer LaRoche